August 2013

Reconstructing the Higgs mass with multivariate techniques (BRTs)

I first heard of the CERN summer student program in the summer of 2011 while working at TRIUMF, the Canadian cyclotron facility. There, I worked in the ATLAS Canada group on a Higgs to ZZ analysis, and heard a lot of amazing stories about CERN from…

Building an outreach application for ATLAS

Greetings, my name is Nathaniel Chandra Harjanto, a summer student of CERN Summer Studentship Programme 2013 from Indonesia, a country in South East Asia. I am part of Indonesian student group consisted of 3 persons which become the first Indonesian…

Me and the Jet!

I applied for the CERN summer student programme through George Mason University in Virginia, USA. The program is supported by an International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) grant from the National Science Foundation. I have…

Working with the CERN-VM File System

I learned about the summer student program from a friend. I knew that CERN was most known about physics and at that time mainly about the discovery of the Higgs Boson, but I also knew that such a domain and discovery required an extraordinary level…

Optimizing Monte Carlo simulations for ATLAS

I am Archil Durglishvili, in this summer I have graduated Iv. Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University at Georgia, Masters Degree program of Fundamental Physics. Since 2011 I am connected to Tbilisi Team of ATLAS experiment. In 2012 World…

Modeling Dark Matter

My name is Adil JUEID, I'm a student in the second year of my Master studies in theoretical physics in Mohamed V university in Rabat. I took my decision to apply for CERN's summer students programme after meeting a physicist duing an…

Modeling processes for new TLEP and LEP3 colliders

My name is Nikita Belyaev, I'm studying in the Moscow Engineering-Physical University. I'm a fifth year student. I decided to apply for the summer student programme because of advice from the administration of my cathedra in the university. Of…

Working as a scientist: The most satisfying profession!

My father is one of the active team members of the Outer Hadron Calorimeter of the CMS experiment. He is also a key member of the India-based Neutrino Observatory project, in which I did final year project during my bachelors. I inherited the…

At CERN for the first time

First of all let me say few words about myself. I'm a student of Lomosov Moscow State University. I'm working in single top analysis in CMS (Moscow group) for about 1.5 years. The work I'm doing is statistical analysis for my group. I'm…

Building RPCs for the CMS Experiment

I'm Alla Hashem, I'm from Egypt but I'm studying physics in Arab Emirates , I'm doing my bachelor and I'll graduate next year on July 14 from Arab Emirates university. CERN , of course, is the biggest center of research in the world, and I feel so…

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